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The qualitative as well as the quantitative analysis looks into the question of how far the first grade German reading books used at the 'Volksschule' conveyed the guidelines of the National Socialist ideology, and if they functioned as a medium of a total ideology. The material used was a sample of 124 primers which were issued between 1933 and 1945 during the 'Deutsches Reich' period. On the whole one can say that a great number of primers used in the Third Reich functioned as a medium of indoctrination with the National Socialist ideology. However, not all ideological principles were conveyed in the primers. The emphasis was put on the 'Führer followers principle', a frequent divergent picture of Hitler portrayed in some of the primers, the concept of a people's community in conform with the National Socialist ideology where the woman is depicted as mother and housewife. Other essential characteristics of National Socialist ideology such as the vision of life being a fight between nations, the Jews as the concept of the enemy and the desire to conquer all living space were not included in the primers. The theory of a total ideology of National Socialist upbringing in the primers could therefore be empirically disproved. More likely one can assume that a partial ideology of the primers' contents is correct.